At the beginning of this semester, I thought Eng2850 would be another writing class, another stake of essays, and another bunch of not carefully read books. But it turns out that it is not like what I expect. One thing helped me most is the questions our professor gave in class and online, or in other words, various ways of interpreting one single text. Moreover, I think she also leaves us proper time for reading assignment, thus I am given time to read carefully, and digest the text. Now I enjoy my reading so much and become more interested in reading. About the strengths and weakness, I know for sure that I still need to work on my essay. Grammar, logic, vocabulary, structure are all supposed to be improved. Now I learned how to write the paragraph and hopefully I’ll keep practicing expressing my idea in a proper way. Besides, I always write slower than my classmates, and I’m always the last one to hand in the quiz. From my point of view, this is because I spend longer time composing my thoughts, and usually only after others have finished writing that I finally begin to write. Right now I haven’t seen any strengths. Maybe it is because the weaknesses are so apparent that I can spare no effort thinking of others. I believe things will become better through practicing.
—-Zeyu Kang
Zeyu,
You have a great many strengths, but most notably your very perceptive observations on the text and your ability to connect these observations to larger, more universal issues. Your comments in class are always elucidating, and you are an original thinker!
Jeanne
Zeyu, you do have strengths, like professor said you are a thinker. The reason why you hand in your quiz the latest is probably because you are a thinker or ways in which to answer to question, this can be bad because we are on a short time limit, but is good because it means you are understanding the subject and trying to connect, link it to other concepts. As for the other weakness like grammar and vocabulary, we are both on that boat. One suggestion to help that is just to keep writing more and have someone correct you and you understand that correction.
-Denny Huang